Whole-body diffusion-weighted imaging with a continuously moving table acquisition method: Preliminary results

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1557-1563

  Han, Yeji ^a   Weigel, Matthias ^b   Huff, Sandra ^b   Ludwig, Ute ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

continuously moving table; extended FOV; short bore magnets; short Tau inversion recovery diffusion weighted echo planar imaging; whole body diffusion weighted imaging

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAGNETS; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; CONTINUOUSLY MOVING TABLE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEWS; EXTENDED FOV; GEOMETRIC DISTORTION; RADIO FREQUENCY COILS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIOFREQUENCY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79958271157     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22833     Document Type: Article

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